I learn someplace that many birders / twitchers / listers could be positioned someplace on the autism / asperger’s spectrum: definitely many people exhibit some of the traits! Since I began birds (versus seeing them) at round ten years of age, I’ve maintained some type of diary, linked to varied lists. As of late my data are stored on an XL database: mine, I feel, is barely old-fashioned, since some latest new birds needed to be added on the backside. On the time of scripting this publish, these are my present totals:
Life listing: 439
Chicken species I’ve photographed: 357
Yare Valley listing: 189
Finest yr listing: 307
Finest day whole: 157
I notice that none of those are even within the second division of birding lists, however I not often depart Norfolk and positively do not chase new ticks until they’re one thing particular like a Lammergeier! The letter under refers back to the second time the ‘Cley Casuals’ received the nationwide 24 hour fowl race with, I appear to recall, 153 species.
